Am Dienstag, den 30.09.2008, 08:25 -0700 schrieb Garrett Smith: > (Nils, did you mean to put this on the list, or is this personal mail?) I meant to put it on the list - didn't it go there ?
> >> If and until user enters text, the "alternate" text is displayed. > >> > >> The confusing part is that successfully rendered inputs would be > >> rendered and still use the alt. > >> > >> The good part is that it would be (or should be) accessible for screen > >> readers. > > why not just use the title attribute for that ? > > > > Like this: > <input type="text" placeholder="zip" title="zip"> > > ? > > So when you mouse over the input, the yellow tooltip would pop up. > > That's annoying. No, I meant to abolish the placeholder attribute alltogether and render the title attribute as greyed-sut inside the search box instead, because * semantically, the title attribute conveys the same information. * it is already there in many pages. Cheers, Nils